By Grania McFadden It certainly has resonances for modern Ulster, but local playwright Owen McCafferty's new production is a reworking of an ancient, Greek classic. He tells Grania McFadden why he was very determined to resurrect it for this year's Belfast Festival at Queen's The war is over.

By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oedipus, the legendary Greek king who
killed his father and married his mother, was "the original
gangsta" and a "mack daddy" who looked like James Brown. At
least that's how the story goes in a new hip-hop musical.

By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oedipus, the legendary Greek king who
killed his father and married his mother, was "the original
gangsta" and a "mack daddy" who looked like James Brown. At
least that's how the story goes in a new hip-hop musical.